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15 Change Quotes

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts

You have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher

When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. – Patrick Overton

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. – Maya Angelou

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein

So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. – Marilyn Monroe

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. –Maya Angelou

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. – Harrison Ford

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett

Christian Friendship Quotes

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. ~Proverbs 17:9

To flatter friends is to lay a trap for their feet. ~Proverbs 29:5

The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense. ~Proverbs 27:9

An open rebuke is better than hidden love! Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy. ~Proverbs 27:5-6

Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul. ~Proverbs 22:24–25

There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother. ~Proverbs 18:24

A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need. ~Proverbs 17:17

A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends. ~Proverbs 16:28

Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor. ~Ecclesiastes 4:9

“A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.” ~ Proverbs 27:19

“The greatest love a person can have for his friends is to give his life for them.” ~ John 15:13

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? ~Matthew 5:43-46

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. Likewise, two people lying close together can keep each other warm. But how can one be warm alone? A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. ~Ecclesiastes 4:9–12

There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. ~John 15:13–15

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Rain Quotes

Posted on May 12, 2011May 12, 2011 by

I am no Poet here; my pen’s the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. – John Cleveland

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other. – Billy Bob Thornton

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way. – Johnny Nash

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season. – William Dampier

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will. – Clint Eastwood

I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. – Leonard Cohen

I don’t know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it’s pouring rain and then it’s hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It’s just so confusing. – Piper Perabo

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. – Pablo Neruda

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch “Singin’ in the Rain” and “White Christmas” – those kind of movies. – Lucas Grabeel

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain. – Duke Kahanamoku

I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in. – Michelle Wie

I like rain, actually. – Bill Rodgers

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need. – Thomas Haden Church

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face. – Katherine Mansfield

I mean, it’s been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It’s been kind of difficult. – Daniela Hantuchova

I never played inside as a kid – even in the rain I’d go out. – Anthony Doerr

I ran my fastest marathon in the rain. – Bill Rodgers

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? – Douglas Adams

I think it’s really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature. – Robin Day

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I’d meet beautiful women in the rain. – Bill Nighy

Harry Houdini Quotes

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Let’s celebrate the birthday of the greatest magician in the world in our own way, with quotes. Today, let me share with you some great Harry Houdini Quotes.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

The great day of the Fire-eater – or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater – has passed.

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

10 Beauty Quotes

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

Let me share with you 10 Beauty Quotes to make your day better. Please comment and tell me you’re favorite beauty quote from this list (or from your own list). Thanks!

1. “The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.” – Ashley Smith

2. “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” – Mark Overby

3. “No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.” – Oscar Wilde

4. “It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.” – Oscar Wilde

5. “It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.” – Ivan Panin

6. “Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. “Pretty is something you’re born with. But beautiful, that’s an equal opportunity adjective.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

8. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it” – Confucius

9. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller

10. “It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before” – Jane Austen

Bonus: “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart” – Kahlil Gibran